To:I. S. UNSCHLICHT[1]

Written:Written between July 4 and 7, 1921Published:First published in 1965 inCollected Works, Fifth (Russian) Ed., Vol. 54.

      Printed from a typewritten copy of I. S. Unschlicht’s reminiscences.Source:Lenin
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      Progress Publishers,1976,

      Moscow,Volume 45,

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ComradeUnschlicht:

There,is bad news about Petrograd. it is said that the
S.R.s are making redoubled efforts, and that the
Petrograd Cheka knows nothing about the S.R.s! They are said
to be a new lot, with an excellent secret organisation and
their own agents.

Wemust look sharp, so as not to miss another
Kronstadt.

Pleasedevote more of your attention, and write methis very day.

Perhapswe should send some experienced Cheka men
from here to Petrograd?

S.R.peasants are said to be sent by the S.R.s to
Petrograd. Is that so?

Whatis your information, what are your
plans?[2]

Withcommunist greetings,Lenin

[1]Leninmust have written this letter in connection with L. B.
Krasin’s telegram of July 4, 1921, in which Krasin reported on
the congress of Russian counter-revolutionaries (monarchists,
Cadets and Right-wing Socialist-Revolutionaries), which was held
in Paris at the end of June 1921. It adopted a decision to organise
revolts at Kronstadt and in Petrograd at the end of July or in
early August to overthrow the Soviet power.

[2]OnJuly 7, 1921, the Politbureau of the R.C.P.(B.) Central
Committee instructed the All-Russia Cheka to take the necessary
precautionary measures and also decided to send “to Petrograd
within the next few weeks a number of Communist metalworkers
from among veteran Party members” (Central Party Archives of
the Institute of Marxism-Leninism of the C.P.S.U. Central
Committee).